Article 665H7 UK aid to Afghanistan entrenched corruption and injustice, report finds

UK aid to Afghanistan entrenched corruption and injustice, report finds

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Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
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Government watchdog says 3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan government

The UK's 3.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primary objective of stabilising the country's government, an assessment by the UK government's aid watchdog has found.

Describing the two-decade aid project as the UK's single most ambitious programme of state building, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) says decisions to spend aid on counterinsurgency operations were flawed, adding that efforts to reduce gender inequality are likely to be wiped out by the Taliban.

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